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"The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life."
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"Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover."
"We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions "helping my child to gain admission."
"Solitude allows you to be able to arrange your life only around your destiny."
"If you don't monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don't measure your life, you will regret it."
"Always ask yourself what you have achieved within a given time and the product of your life."
"We need to analyze our picture of the world."
"Neglect is a major reason for some of the most painful experiences we suffer in life."
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is Our young people look for quick answers and solutions."
"I therefore submit to you that what qualifies a person to be called a man according to God, is the ability of the individual to live by the right standard and values that heaven values. Standards like, justice, judgement, truth and equity."
"Society has got a lot of activities and attractions to steal your time and to make you think less about your diminishing life."
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"The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why now she felt herself to be on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time."
"Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life."
"Every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one s own eternally mysterious uniqueness one had only to plot the mysteries of one s own snowflake."
"The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman."
"I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual."
"Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything."
"Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared."
"Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with Apek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread."
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